Floor-waxing device



April 28, 1925. 1,535,937

J. H. MILLHOLLAND FLOOR WAXING DEVICE Filed Feb; 24, 1925 Jizmes fl. Millholland INVENTOR A TTORNE Y5.

Patented Apr. 23, 1925.

umrea s'rarss JAMES H. IIILLHOLLAN'D, OF PHILADELP HIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN S. CLEMENT COMPANY, INC., PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ACORPORATION OF DELAWVARE.

'FLOOR-WVAXING DEVICE.

Application filed February 24, 1925. Serial No. v11,174.

To aZZwlwr/i it may concern:

Be it known that I, James H. MILLHOL- LAND, a citizen of the; United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improve ments in Floor-Waxing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

vide improvements My invention relates particularly to floor waxing devices which comprise a container having means for periodically discharging liquid wax or the like therefrom, and distributing means for evenly applying the same to the floor; and my object is to proin construction whereby more satisfactory operation and manufacture will be secured; as fully set forth in connection with the accompanying drawings and clearly defined in the subjoined claims.

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a device embodying my improvements in preferred form; tlie forked handle employed to permit of reversing the device as provided for, being indicatedin dotted lines; and one a treatment.

bodymg my improvements 18 adapted to be,

end thereof showing the applicator device employed to clamp a polishing cloth partially indicated in dotted lines.

Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the separately formed open-box and box-closure parts which unitedly form the container and end pockets as shown inFig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a separate view of the improved applicator device employed.

Fig. 5 shows the container cover indicated in Fig. 1. a

The essential features of devices such as my improvements relate to, are a container having a closed chamber 10 with a discharge outlet 11, for holding and periodically discharging the material to be applied to the floor; applicator means for distributing and properly applying the discharged material; and a suitable handle 12 whereby the device is pivotally carried so as to permit of convenient movement upon the floor under The device illustrated as emreversed upon the pivoted handle 12, so that the normally upper face thereofmay be utilized for subsequently polishing the material applied to the floor by the applicator means.

In my improved construction the main portions of the device are most economically and satisfactorily made from sheet metal, which is readily shaped as required by suitable dies; the primary requirements being the providing of a container chamber 10, in connection with satisfactory receiving pockets 15 and 16 at the ends thereof for suitable applicator and weighing means respectively. Fig. 2 shows the main part of the container formed as an open-top rectangular box of sheet-metal, with its bottom plate a shaped to form cross-wise offsets a a Fig. 3 shows the closure part vfor said box as having end walls Z), b which. make a portion of the container chamber 10 of less length than that of the box, while the other chamber portion is made the full length of the box by outwardl -bent partition flanges 6 2 extending to and united with the end walls (1. a of the main box parts Thus when the separately shaped box and closure parts are rigidly united to form the container chamber 10, there is provided at each end of the device the two pockets 15 and 16; both pockets 15 being practically extensions of the chamber 10, but each being occupied by a weight-bar 15 which is closely held in position therein by contact with an offset a and a partition-flange 72 of the united container parts. Each pocket 16 however is without communication with the container chamber 10, and is open at the bottom so as to permit of removably securing therein an applicator device preferably of the improved construction shown in Fig. 4.

For discharging desired amounts of the contained material, to be evenly distributed by the applicators to the floor surface, a discharge outlet is required in the bottom of the container in connection with a normally closed valve; and a filling opening to the container chamber is also required. As shown I preferably employ a self-contained filler plug-andvalve device, comprising a screw-plug 2O engageable in a filler-opening in the container and itself provided with a countersunk discharge opening 11; the valve stem 22 extending loosely through this plug, 100 and a spring 23 being arranged to normally seat the valve. Then this combination de vice is in place, the depressing of the opposite flexible wall of the container, as illustrated, will open the valve as determined by 105 the operator; while the removal of the combined plug and valve enables convenient filling of the reversed container.

The removal means shown for applying the periodically discharged material to the 110 an applied strip of fabric; particularly,

indicated by the dotted line showing in Fig. 1, for a polishing cloth applied to the reverse surface of the container to be used after the material has been applied to the floor. To this end my improved applicator device 30 is made of resilient sheet-metal, hollow-formed by suitable dies so as to provide yieldingly spaced parallel wall portions 31, 31 adapted for engagement in applicator pocket 16, in connection with an oif-setted distributor portion 32 depending below the container; the yielding construction thus provided permitting the wall portions 31, 31 of the device to automatically adust themselves to the pocket space when inserted therein either alone or in connection with a cloth 25 to be clamped thereby. For applying material to the floor preliminary to polishing, a pad-engaging groove 33 formed in the depending portion of the applicator may be used, instead of or in connection with a cloth clamped around the same substantially as indicated in Fig. 1. The polishing cloth 25 preferably extends around a box-shaped container cover e10 formed of felt or like material and adapted to provide a yielding polishing surface and also serves as a buffer.

\Vhen the operator presses down upon the top of the container to discharge material, the discharge valve is opened and the air in the container is simultaneously compressed so as to forcibly eject it; but to insure proper action repeatedly it is important that the partial vacuum otherwise produced in the con tainer, be avoided by insuring corresponding admission of air after each discharge, and for this purpose I provide a spring-pressed vacuum valve 35 which is normally held closed but is automatically opened to admit air to the container after each discharging action. The preferred detail construction specifically set forth may be modified within the invention as defined in the claims.

What I claim is 1. In a floor waxing device comprising a container having a bottom wall provided with an intermediate discharge outlet, and an open bottom endwise extension forming an applicator-receiving pocket; a hollowformed sheet-material applicator device having a yielding pocket-engaging portion.

2. In a floor waxing device comprising a container having a bottom wall provided with an intermediate discharge outlet, and an open bottom endwise extension forming an applicator-receiving pocket; a hollowformed sheet-material applicator device having a pocket engaging portion with yieldingly spaced walls, and a distributorportion depending below the container bottom.

3. In a floor waxing device comprising a container having a bottom wall provided with an intermediate discharge outlet, and an open bottom endwise extension forming an applicator-receiving pocket; a hollowformed sheet-material applicator device having a pocket engaging portion with yieldingly spaced walls, and a distributorportion depending below the container bottom and formed with a pad-receiving groove.

4-. A floor waxing device having a closed box container formed with separate weight and applicator receiving pockets at the end thereof, the latter having an open bottom.

5. A floor waxing device having a closed box container formed with separate weight and applicator receiving pockets at the end thereof, said weight-receiving pocket only forming an extension of the container chamber, and said applicator-receiving pocket having an open bottom.

(3. A container casing for a ll()O1'\\'tLXlllI device comprising an inverted sheet-metal rectangular box; a partial bottom closure for said box having end. walls spaced-apart from the end walls of the box and provided with horizontal partition-extensions which are oined to the end walls of the box so as to form superposed end pockets; the upper ones of said pockets forming weight-receiving extensions of the liquid container chamher and the lower ones forming open-bottom applicator-receiving recesses.

7. A floor-waxing device comprising a liquid container having applicator devices at opposite ends thereof; said container having spaced-apart bottom and top walls, one of which is flexible and the other of which is provided with a tilling-o 'iening; and an apertured filler-plug removably secured in said opening and carrying a spring closed valve arranged in operative relation to said flexible wall.

8. A floor waxing device comprising a box-shaped container having liquid-discharge means, applicator devices removably secured to the container so as to project beyond the discharge wall thereof, a container-cover forming a buffer-box and having its bottom portion in contact with the opposite wall of the container, and a polishing cloth having its end portions clamped to the container by means of said removable applicator devices and serving to retain said cover in position upon the container.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JAMES H. lv IILLHOLLAND. 

